There is at least one documented instance of a fatality from the
frustration of end-user RS232 interfacing. (a user took a personal
computer (CP/M?) and a serial printer to a store to have them connect
them; after several weeks without success, he shot and killed the store
owner.)
USB eliminates most end-user frustration, and replaces it with an
extraordinarily high level of frustration for hobbyists and developers.
What is the suicide rate?
Even I can build simple stuff that connects to RS232 and Centronics.
But I don't think that I will ever be able to build anything USB.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Wed Feb 02 2005 - 16:06:23 GMT